When are signals complements or substitutes?
Tilman Börgers (tborgers@umich.edu),
Angel Hernando-Veciana (angel.hernando@uc3m.es) and
Daniel Krähmer
UC3M Working papers. Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de EconomÃa
Abstract:
The paper introduces a notion of complementarity (substitutability) of two signals which requires that in all decision problems each signal becomes more (less) valuable when the other signal becomes available. We provide a general characterization which relates complementarity and substitutability to a Blackwell-comparison of two auxiliary signals. In a special setting with a binary state space and binary, symmetric signals, we find an explicit characterization that permits an intuitive interpretation of complementarity and substitutability. We demonstrate how these conditions extend to the general case. Finally, we study implications of complementarity and substitutability for information acquisition and in a second price auction.
Keywords: Complementarity; Substitutability; Value; of; information; Blackwell-ordering; Statistical; decision; problem; Information; acquisition; Second; price; auction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-03
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